Intel Core i5-11400F vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500H

Core i5-11400F vs Ryzen 5 5500H specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-11400F beats the Ryzen 5 5500H in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 5500H in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-11400F has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 5500H. Indeed, the Core i5-11400F has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Ryzen 5 5500H. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5500H. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 5500H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-11400F. Despite this, the Core i5-11400F has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 5500H outputs less heat than Core i5-11400F thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i5-11400F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.